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> It felt like the iTunes U2 fiasco. Looked it up now and this explains why I had a lonely U2 album in my iMusic when I finally got another Apple product after

• skrebbel 7y ago
  You looked it up, wrote a comment about it, and still didn't explain why this was a fiasco. So I looked it up too: in 2014, U2 made a new album, "Songs of Innocence", and Apple pushed it to 500m iPhone users without asking. It was just suddenly on their phones. The twitter-o-verse got angry, because sending a tweet is easier than pressing "delete", and because the album looked badly amidst their carefully curated collection of dubstep remixes. Newspapers wrote about the angry twitter-o-verse because they hadn't gotten the memo yet that people are always angry about something on twitter and it's not news and nobody cares.
  • mey 7y ago
    Originally you couldn't delete it.
    • LMMojo 7y ago
      And if your phone storage use was near Max, your phone was now full. You couldn't delete the (partial) album, you you started trying to delete something else, and when it was noticed there was available space on your phone, more of the album was downloaded. Repeat, until full album was on your phone and now you're missing photos of your kids, apps you want to use, etc. Just so there's available space so your phone will run normal-like. But you can't take any new pictures...
      • jsjohnst 7y ago
        Not saying some didn’t experience the issue you pointed out, but to be fair, the album was under 100MB. It’s not like they forced something on you that used even 1% of the storage of the minimum storage option phone at the time. The outrage over needing multiple gigabytes of free storage for OTA updates at the time was much more warranted imho.
  • somebadguy 7y ago
    What the fuck is wrong with you. Pathetic autistic bitch